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Most Web browser reviews focus on one thing: speed. Speed is all well and good, but browser benchmark scores fail to answer a fundamental question: which browser is best for business? In an enterprise environment, speed is simply one concern among many. Ars compares Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera.
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Best? I don't know, but the most important browser to support is the one you can expect to be on a vast majority of computers out of the box.
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Depends mainly on the installed OS. As for business features, Internet Explorer seconded by Mozilla. The answer is the same for both: extensions and interoperability. With a plus for IE which has by far the better API, being also backed by COM. Basically, you can integrate anything. (Including trojans).
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Over the years, the various component organizations within Microsoft have had various levels of involvement with Open Source, with different philosophies, and from what I have gathered over the years from post-conference drinks, internal conflicts that can be quite a challenge. Does Microsoft have a vision when it comes to Open-Source?
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It's not needed. Open source is about guys doing code, not shops pumping money.
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Last week, a reader tipped me off to an article indicating how to customize the new WinX menu in Windows 8. (You know, the menu that appears when you right-click the lower-left Start tip.) Not happy with hacking core system files and peeling back file system security, I dug a little deeper to understand what’s going on and came up with a simpler solution. It's not a Start Menu replacement, but it plays one on TV.
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Designers of managed languages have chosen the path of safety over performance for their designs. But can state of the art JIT compilers ever provide the performance we've come to expect from native code? Managed runtimes can evolve to improve their performance.
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At the height of Bell Labs’ influence, from the 1920s to the 1980s, the corporate research powerhouse seemed unstoppable. The transistor, UNIX, the C programming language, the modern photovoltaic cell, the CCD chip, the field of information theory and the first global communications satellites all bear Bell Labs DNA, for starters. The tales of the characters inhabiting Bell Labs’ hallowed corridors are legion.
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Last week we discovered that the owner of SEOnix.org hacked in to our backend and threw himself a sweet SEO party. We can look back at this now and have a laugh, but we honestly felt very stupid when we discovered this. Here's what happened, and what we did to fix it. Get greedy, get caught.
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When it comes to this fabled smaller iPad, I don’t think the question we should be asking is “really?”. Of course Apple has a smaller iPad in their labs. I’m sure there are all kinds of neat product prototypes at Cupertino. But why would Apple want to release a smaller iPad? The Retina revolution suggests better, not smaller.
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Despite the fact that so much of life is now lived digitally, the springtime urge to tidy things up and get our affairs in order often stops at our computers. Ctrl-A, Ctrl-D.
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Why don’t more women enter the male-dominated profession of engineering? Contrary to the stereotype, a study finds, women are no more hesitant than men when it comes to mixing family and work. Instead, the study finds, women feel less comfortable in engineering than men, and lack the “professional role confidence” that male engineers seem to acquire easily. Too large a gap between the idea of being an engineer and the practice of it.
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While Windows 8 already supports development using a number of programming languages, Microsoft wants developers to bring even more to the new Windows runtime (WinRT) at the heart of the next version of Windows. What language would you like to see supported by Windows 8?
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RPG.
I hope WinRPG will be supported on ALL future versions of Windows.
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Don't forget APL. 
/ravi
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I'm sure they will get the support they deserve. The same they got for Vista.
I'm invincible, I can't be vinced
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there are too many languages that they can't exclude ,But why would they attack win7 by bringing win8 up to scene
well they had enough from the slow motion in previous window versions developing.
There is always hope ..!
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C. As long as the operating system is C, I will wrote in C.
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A while back Microsoft started spinning up loads of uservoice.com (UV) sites to collect feedback. There is an odd issue I see on UV. As technology users & developers we are taught to give the most detail possible. However, in UV, it seems that Microsoft ignores that and favours those who do and give very little. Microsoft apparently wants you to just complain, not to offer solutions.
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Lately I've been fascinated with the idea of logical fallacies, and especially problems in arguments that may at first glance seem reasonable. ...or Tools for Arguing with Engineers 101.
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Everybody tells you to build a funnel for your startup website. That is, have 1,2, or 3 pages that serve to take the site visitor from reading something that interests them to buying/signing-up for your product. They are wrong. Here's my experience. I really don't know what people want, I just know what I'm offering them.
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It’s not clear how many people enjoy looking at programs that make compilers crash — but this post is for them (and me). Can we conclude anything just by looking at these? Not really, but it's fun anyway. Many of these C fragments are not obviously hard to compile... and figuring out why the fun of it.
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When the Internet was created, decades ago, one thing was inevitable: the war today over how (or whether) to control it, and who should have that power. Battle lines have been drawn between repressive regimes and Western democracies, corporations and customers, hackers and law enforcement. Who will win in the end? In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, Who Should Control the Internet?
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In the nearly 30 years since Tetris’s invention — and especially over the last five, with the rise of smartphones — Tetris and its offspring have colonized our pockets and our brains and shifted the entire economic model of the video-game industry. Today we are living, for better and worse, in a world of stupid games. Level up your low-brow game culture.
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